The Revivifying word : literature, philosophy, and the theory of life in europe's romantic age /: literature, philosophy, and the theory of life in europe's romantic age. (©2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Clayton Koelb.
• Other Names: Koelb, Clayton, 1942-
• Contents: Introduction: "The dead man's life": romantic reading and revivification -- "The sound which echoes in our soul": the romantic aesthetics of matter and spirit -- "Spirit thanks only through the body": materialist spiritualism in romantic Europe -- "The heavenly revelation of her spirit": Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther -- "O read for pity's sake!": Keat's Endymion -- "Graecum est, non legitur": Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris -- "Spiritual communication": Gautier's Spirite -- "Eat this scroll": Kleist's "Michael Kohlhaas" -- "I sickened as I read": Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- "Those who, being dead, are yet alive": Maturin's Melmoth the wanderer -- "This hideous drama of revivification": Poe and the rhetoric of terror.
• Publisher Details: Rochester, N.Y : Camden House
• Publication Date: 2008
• Copyright Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 205 pages)
• Subjects: 809/.9145; Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Romanticism; Littérature -- Histoire et critique -- Théorie, etc; Romantisme; romanticism (form of expression); TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM -- General; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German; Literature -- Theory, etc; Romanticism; Literatur; Philosophie; Lesen; Romantik; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781571138040; 1571138048
• Related ISBNs: 9781571133885; 1571133887
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-194) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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